Prayers for the church

Prayers for the Church

Please join us as we pray the prayer requests from now until we meet again.

Sunday – Passionate Worship – Lord, we pray that the Churches across the globe would have an awesome encounter of worshipping You in Spirit and in truth today (John 4:24).

Monday – Calling Young People into Ministry – Lord, we pray that You would raise up laborers for the harvest (Matthew 9:37-39). And, specifically, we ask You to raise up young clergy in America and call them into the ministry.

Tuesday – New Churches – Lord, we pray that You would raise up new Churches in America in places where there is no vibrant witness for the Gospel right now (Romans 15:20).

Wednesday – Ministry to the Poor – Lord, we pray that You would use your churches to alleviate poverty, stamp out malaria and HIV/AIDS, and minister to the less fortunate and overlooked in the name of Jesus (Matthew 25:40).

Thursday – Renewed Vitality of the Church – Lord, we pray that You would bring renewed vitality to the Church (Ezekiel 37) and that You would daily add to Your church through professions of faith (Acts 2:47).

Friday – Unity – Lord, we pray for a healthy unity across the Church such that the unbelieving world may see and believe in You (John 17:20-21).

Saturday – The Word – Lord, we pray that as the Word of God is preached in Your church tomorrow that You would bear fruit that will last forever (Isaiah 55:10-11). “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain” – Psalm 127:1

“I am the Vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing.” – John 15:5

What Could Happen If…

1. What could happen if tens of thousands of believers all prayed the same things for 7 days? The Bible says that there is great power in prayer that is prayed according to God’s will (I John 5:14-15) and that is prayed with multiple people in agreement (Matthew 18:19-20).

2. Would you join us praying for our Beloved Church? Please place this card on your bathroom mirror and pray for one request each day. Or put this card at your dinner table and pray for each day’s request before you eat dinner.

Twelve Famous Quotes on Prayer

1. E.M. Bounds - “What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men and women whom the Holy Spirit can use--men and women of prayer, men and women mighty in prayer!”

2. Jesus- “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

3. John Wesley - “God will do nothing on earth except in answer to believing prayer.”

4. William Temple - “When I pray, coincidences happen.”

5. E.M. Bounds - “Prayer can do anything God can do.”

6. A.T. Pierson - “There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.”

7. Terry Teykl - “Any attempts to solve the issues of the United Methodist Church short of a major movement of prayer is like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.”

8. Paul Billheimer - “Prayer is where the action is. Any church without a well-organized and systematic prayer program is simply operating a religious treadmill.”

9. Terry Teykl - “This year’s level of church growth cannot be sustained on last year’s level of prayer.”

10. Bill Bright - “In the providence of God, I believe the power of fasting as it relates to prayer is the spiritual atomic bomb of our moment in history to bring down the strongholds of evil, bring a great revival and spiritual awakening to America, and accelerate the fulfillment of the Great Commission.”

11. Anonymous – “When we work, we work; when we pray, God works.”

12. Dan Hayes - “God never revives proud people…. He only brings revival to those of us who say, ‘Lord, we can’t; but You can.’”